“Normally, when the stock market is rising, or the credit spreads are tightening, you’d expect the gold-silver ratio to be falling […] this time it’s interesting that as the stock markets are rising, credit’s behaving well and the gold-silver ratio is rising. It’s telling you that at some point in the next six months there is going to be a snap in risk asset prices.”

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour.)”